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Teaching ai ms
1 . Learn famous Chinese festival s and western festival s and l earn how to
cel ebrate them.
2. Guess the meaning of the words according to the pictures.
3. Discuss favourite festival s.
I mportant words, phrases and sentences
words: festival , Christmas, interesting, dress
phrases: Chinese New Year Mid-Autumn Festival
sentences: 1 . Why do you l ike the Mid-Autumn Festival ?
2. Because I l ike to eat mooncakes.
Teaching preparati on:
1 l ook for the information about six festival s before cl ass
2 radio
3 mul ti-media
Teaching procedure:
Step1 Free tal k : Tal k about the festi val s
1 show the students some objects and pictures, such as a mooncake, a red
packet…
T: What’ s this?
S: I t’ s a mooncake.
T: When do you eat mooncakes?
S: At Mid-Autumn Festival .
T: When is Mid-Autumn Festival ?
S: On August 1 5
th (l unar) . (find the date from the cal enda)
(T: When there is a festival in the cal enda, we can see the Chinese
characters. Read ‘festival ’ after me, pl ease. )
Ask information about other festival s l ike this.